Site Announcements

This is to address queries in the Forum about our various Groups - Admin, TL Monitor, FAQ Monitor, etc.
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We are not appointing Admins anymore. Before Monitors, we had just one group called the Admin group. Now, we have the various Monitor groups. Our Admins themselves are members of the various Monitor...

It has come to our attention that several IRI members have been causing mischief on other social media sites, distressing our regular loyal members.
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They have been seen to post confidential and sensitive Govt. information on IRI, and thereafter themselves have been complaining to the Ministry that,
"Such RailFan sites are openly running...

There have been several reports that IRI cannot be accessed from a few large mobile data providers like Vodafone, whereas the site works fine when accessed through others. The matter was investigated, and the findings are that the connections are just not reaching the IRI servers. This may be because of...

Several routine trouble-makers have been banned from the site, yesterday and today. We shall see to it that they do NOT return to vitiate the atmosphere of this site. They will NOT be coming back.
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Many others have been placed under Restricted blogging or have lost the Objection privilege.
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Note to all bloggers:
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-@all members:
Some clarification regarding the Archival mechanism.
When a blog is actively Archived either by an FM or due to Objections, that means that the topic is CLOSED, until it is explicitly reopened.
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Bloggers are FORBIDDEN to post "Replies" to Archived topics as a brand NEW BLOG ENTRY. Such an activity makes a...

It has been observed that a dozen or so IRI Admins/Members are very active on Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, and other social networks, engaging in abusive and non-decorous conduct. These members thereafter, bring the politics of these OTHER SOCIAL networks into IRI, disrupting this Forum.
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While IRI is strictly moderated, the same cannot...